turquoise70 wrote:Guys, help me out here. I used to get INFJ most of the time when I took this test in my teens and early 20s.
But for the first time... I can't even take the test. I got to about page 5 or 6 of the questions, and I realized I had reacted to -almost every question- with paralyzing indecision. Like I could see multiple ways I'm strongly represented by either of the two options.
Maybe it's the way these questions in particular seemed to be worded? I don't know, it seemed almost impossible to answer any of them without having more info about the situations described. It's like "Hey would you rather eat peanut butter and jelly or go play golf" - well, which day of the frigging week is it and how's my depression doing? I don't know! Am I supposed to be answering this for when I'm middling in the thick of a depressive jag, or when I'm elated coming out of one?
And I promise you I'm not being willfully obtuse, I -enjoy- taking this kind of inventory, but I read these questions and almost every one makes me think, "Well come on, that could fall either way." I just think there's a very low probability that with THAT MANY of the questions 'neither strongly agree nor disagree', it's going to be able to determine what the machinations of my personality are.
I feel like I'm quite different in work than I am with friends and people close to me, so I have the same problem and find myself answering what seem like the same questions very differently. The thing is, it always seems to balance out, because I end up with the same result (INTJ-A) every time. I guess they take different contexts into account, somehow, with the way they word the questions.
The funny thing is sometimes I answer the questions more according to how I'd
like to be - more extrovert, say, but still end up with the same profile - it appears that I can't even conceive of how to answer the questions as a different personality...